Re: [orca-list] Some bugs with perhaps possible fixing in master branch

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Vinux had some thing in it for sure.
capslock + r on my laptop would tell me what's in the clip board.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 06/04/2012 12:40 AM, Fernando H. F. Botelho wrote:
> Hi Joanie, Krishnakant, and all,
>
> My apologies for answering the initial email from Krishnakant without 
> reaching first the end of the discussion.
>
> I understand Joanie's reasoning. Does anybody have one or more 
> accessible clipboard applications that we could try out?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fernando
>
>
>
> On 06/02/2012 12:02 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey Krishnakant.
> >
> > On 06/02/2012 03:00 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> > > Whis this discussion happens,
> > > I wished to bring to the notice of every one a small irritant which
> > > should be addressed some day.
> > > I purposely use the word "irritant " because I don't see this as a bug.
> > > When text is selected, orca says "selected " and repeats the text as 
> > > well.
> > > But when I press ctrl + c, it does not say any thing.
> > > Should it not tell me some thing like "copied  to clipboard " or some
> > > thing like that for cut as well?
> >
> > Periodically this issue gets raised and the reason it gets raised is
> > thanks to JAWS.<sighs>
> >
> > A bazillion years ago, when I taught JAWS on a daily basis, I always
> > found it amusing that JAWS said text was copied to the clipboard when
> > you pressed Ctrl+C. It didn't matter if text was actually copied or not.
> > Sometimes it wasn't, but JAWS didn't care: It said what it said in
> > response to the keybinding. Later on, I believed they fixed that by
> > actually looking at the clipboard contents before declaring success.
> >
> > Regardless.... As a sighted user, when I press Ctrl+C I have no idea if
> > I were successful or not until I go to paste it. Sometimes I paste
> > nothing. Other times I paste earlier contents. It's a bit of a drag.
> > Fortunately, there are clipboard utilities. I would rather see those
> > utilities work with Orca than add monitoring and presenting of the
> > clipboard to the list of tasks Orca is expected to do.
> >
> > Take care.
> > --joanie
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